January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994
 
He would have been 101 years old this year.

hated that dude.
 

So, how do you really feel about him?

 
What I fail to understand is why any scandal of note since his notorious faux pas automatically seems to get the suffix "gate" added to it.
 
I've never been able to see the reason, other than inexcusably lazy journalism. If similar scandals were described as "Watergate-esque" or some other awkward description I would get it, but just to add 'gate' doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Or am I missing something?
 
The press over here were recently presented with the perfect opportunity to display the total absurdity of this practise in the matter of the police officers who accused Tory MP Andrew Mitchell of calling them "plebs" when they refused to allow him to ride his bicycle through the gates leading into Downing Street.
 
Most chose not to label the affair 'Gategate', or even the slightly more amusing 'DowningStreetgate', but instead used the derogatory word he was alleged to use to come up with the ridiculous "Plebgate".
 
In fact, thinking about it, the absurdity of this convention means that to be strictly accurately applied, "DowningStreetgate" should have really been termed "DowningStreetgategate".
 
As this is all Nixon's fault, I'm much in agreement with Batsy's impressions of the man 
 
 

Bellendgate?

I’ve always interpreted the suffix ”-gate” to imply not only a scandal, but more importantly, an active cover-up and not just simply a denial.
 
[edit] - spelling

 
Yes, I agree Dave.
 
But I don't understand what a 'gate' has to do with a cover-up. Other than it's part of the name of the infamous hotel.
 
 

Have you ever known the media to use logic and make sense Steve?

I simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to make sense of anything the media does.
 
 
 
On a side note, it is also Jimmy Page’s B-Day.  He turns 70.  I wonder if there is any relationship between Richard and Jimmy having the same birth date … possibly an Aleister Crowley.

craigb
Have you ever known Bapu to use logic and make sense Steve?

Mooch'd